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The Little Hotel (Text Classics) by Christina Stead
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics Ser.
People live year after year in a hotel like this. We have their police papers, we know their sicknesses and family troubles; people come to confide in you. They tell you things they would not tell their own parents and friends, not even their lawyers and doctors. After the Second World War, bizarre char ...Show more
The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow: Text Classics by Thea Astley, Chloe Hooper
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In 1930 the superintendent of a mission on a Queensland island, driven mad by his wife's death, goes on a murderous rampage. Fearing for their lives, the other whites arm a young Indigenous man and order him to shoot Uncle Boss dead. The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow traces the lead-up to this bloody s ...Show more
The Puzzleheaded Girl (Text Classics) by Christina Stead
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics Ser.
" I hate and despise business and anything to do with making money.' Do you think it's wrong?' It is the enemy of art.' Eighteen-year-old Honor Lawrence is out of place at the bank where she works. When she refuses to accept a promotion, despite her obvious poverty, her mentor, Augustus Debrett, doesn't ...Show more
The Tournament: Text Classics by John Clarke
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Category: General | Series: Text Classics Ser.
The most unusual tennis tournament in history is about to start. Einstein's seeded fourth. Chaplin, Freud and van Gogh are also in the top rankings. World number one is Tony Chekhov. In all, 128 of the world's most creative players - everyone from Louis Armstrong to George Orwell, Gertrude Stein to Coco ...Show more
The Watch Tower: Text Classics by Elizabeth Harrower
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Category: No Category | Series: Text Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, The Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power. Following their father's death, Laura and Clare are withdrawn from their elite private boarding school by their mother. As their mother slowly withdraws from them, the tw ...Show more
Time without Clocks: Text Classics by Joan Lindsay
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Time Without Clocks is a 1962 autobiographical novel by Joan Lindsay that recounts Lindsay's early years married to prolific Australian artist Daryl Lindsay.
Tobruk 1941: Text Classics by Chester Wilmot
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Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
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Wake in Fright: Text Classics by Kenneth Cook
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Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest outback horror story. Bundanyabba and its citizens will forever haunt its readers.
Woman of the Future - Text Classics by David Ireland; Kate Jennings (Introduction by)
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"Immense originality, wit, and gritty wisdom. . . . David Ireland has reached the top."--Patrick WhiteAn imaginative tour de force, A Woman of the Future is the story of the young life of Anthea Hunt--from conception to sexual awakening. It is controversial and brilliant, and unlike anything else in Aus ...Show more